Hot topics in March

Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Europe’s longest ski run

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Europe’s longest ski run with a cable car to the top is 22 kilometers long and has an elevation difference of 2790 meters. It starts at Aiguille du Midi at the foot of Mont Blanc and proceeds down through Vallée Blanche to Chamonix.

Fit for spring

Cape Town, the African biking capital, has routes that are open year-round both within the city limits and in the nearby mountains and on the coast. The big bicycle festival Lifecycle Week takes place March 2 to 11.

Whatever you pedal – a city bike in magical Marrakech, a gravel bike in the vast Agafay Desert or a mountainbike in the wild Atlas Mountains – Morocco is a fantastic country to explore under your own steam.

Culture clash

Where have all the flowers gone? In spring, these big flowers and horticultural shows make for blossoming landscapes.

Fields of flowers

Keukenhof flower park in the Netherlands delights visitors with 4.5 million tulips and 2.5 million daffodils, hyacinths and other bulbs each year. Keukenhof is spectacular, vast and open March 21 to May 19.

A mysterious “time garden”, a “Silk road garden” and a “peach blossom land” are just three of many poetic concepts being realized at the international horticultural exposition in Beijing (April 29 to October 7)

A laugh a minute

Two Scotmen walk into a bar … no, ragging the natives is taboo at the International Comedy festival in Glasgow, Europe’s biggest (this year, March 14-31), which welcomes a host of charming stand-up comics.